- Your audience is the world. Address your writing to them, not me and not your fellow classmates.
- Your writing is timely and timeless...only mention whether something happened today or yesterday if that's really critical; you never know what day someone will read your entry. What will it read like in a month, a year, a decade? Will it make sense when you re-read this in four more years during your first years of teaching.
- Citations and hyperlinks are critical--your readers may want to know more and you need to help them find the articles, surveys, pages that you are referencing (but write as if they are reading from a printout and can't click on anything).
- This is the start of your professional digital footprint. Don't reference the resources as assignments...this shouldn't sound like a school project but it should sound like your professional voice and opinion.
- Differentiating beginnings of paragraphs is an issue in many blogs and wikis...You put in a tab or five spaces and the editor will take it back out. Sometimes it works but it seems random. Easiest to put a blank line between paragraphs....typically that doesn't change on you.
- Spell out what all abbreviations and acronyms mean the first time and put acronym in parenthesis. Then you can use the acronyms later. This includes MI, TPACK, SAMR, MEL, VAK. Double check yours.